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The first monograph on the Japanese streetwear brand Whiz Limited, this book showcases the last 20 years of the brand’s design and collaborations with streetwear’s most iconic players. Whiz Limited is a Japanese streetwear brand estab-lished in 2000 by Hiroaki Shitano. With a following in Japan as well as Hong Kong and mainland China, Shitano has become something of a cult figure, as one of the new generation of streetwear designers influ-enced by Hiroshi Fujiwara. Consisting originally of handmade, printed tees, the label has since expanded to include a complete range of streetwear infused with an eccentric Japanese flair. Shitano was raised in the entertainment district of Shinjuku, and this is reflected in the clothing’s distinctly downtown urban vibe and predominantly dark color palette. Chronicling the history of the brand, alongside some of Whiz’s most prolific projects to date, this book features beautiful, newly shot photographs of a long list of collaborations with streetwear icons, including Hiroshi Fujiwara/Fragment, Mastermind, Stüssy, A Bathing Ape®, Bristol, Bountyhunter, M&M, Kappa, New Era, Disney, Hello Kitty, G-Shock, Peanuts, Porter, The North Face, Marmot, First Down, and the estate of Keith Haring. This book also features an impressive archive of the brand’s iconic sneaker designs, boasting collabora-tions with heavy hitters like mita sneakers, Adidas, New Balance, Asics, Puma, Reebok, Mizuno, Converse, and Ugg, making it a must-have for sneak-erheads and lovers of streetwear style alike.

Este libro invita a buscar la armonía y el contraste sobre el espacio finito de una mesa. La mesa es el lugar donde se conjugan la cultura, el gusto, la educación y las costumbres y puedes reinventarla sin grandes artificios, con lo que está al alcance de tu mano y anida en tu cabeza. Más allá de la superficie del tablero, es un espacio que invita al diálogo amable y a la felicidad compartida. Te acercamos un pequeño manual de primeros auxilios que reúne todos los secretos, trucos y consejos decisivos para adentrarse sin problemas en el mundo de las mesas.

Milan-based architect and artist Vincenzo De Cotiis' frequent appearances on Architectural Digest’s AD100 lists attest to his studio’s international renown. Originally known for interiors in which he strips centuries-old architecture of any later embellishments, creating a conversation between historic settings and his emphatically contemporary design, De Cotiis has since developed a vocabulary of rare stones and polished metals to create striking minimalist interiors for the world’s tastemakers. Following in the footsteps of Italian maestros like Gio Ponti and Carlo Scarpa, De Cotiis works at the nexus of architecture, interiors, and furniture design, prizing top-level craftsmanship above all else. His creations are born out of an assembly of recovered materials and reflective, futuristic surfaces.

With a keen eye for art and having spent her childhood in Japan, Singapore, and the United States, rising star designer Sara Story brings a unique perspective to all of her projects. Drawing inspiration from her extensive travels and passion for art and fashion, her work combines bold, contemporary art with antique pieces from every corner of the world to create extraordinary homes for her clients and her own family. She exacts her aesthetic vision with a style that combines modern with bohemian, creating well-collected, polished environments that feature crisp, elegant, and comfortable design gestures.

Designer Nina Farmer has made a name for herself with her classically beautiful interiors. From reimagining century-old homes to more modern dwellings, Farmer has a way of creating looks that celebrate the past and simultaneously live squarely—and stylishly—in the present. In these pages, Farmer introduces readers to the design solutions she has found for creating that special combination: a carefully curated mix of the classic and the contemporary that looks like it was collected over time rather than created all at once.

The lives and works of artists in every creative discipline transformed Paris into a crucible of modernity in the first half of the twentieth century. Profiles of eighty-eight influential artists, designers, photographers, architects, writers, and personalities—including Gabrielle Chanel, Eileen Gray, Jean Prouvé, Pablo Picasso, Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Brassaï, Man Ray, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Walter Benjamin, Josephine Baker, Jean Renoir, Gertrude Stein, and more—highlight the boundless creative energy and optimism that permeated the City of Light at this key historical juncture. Richly illustrated alphabetical entries with cross-references to related topics are complemented by six thematic essays on cinema, fashion, graphic design, habitation, painting, and urban planning. A portfolio of original contemporary photographs—from the historic center to the suburbs of Paris—reveals traces of modernism in dozens of buildings and their interiors that are rarely open to the public. This catalog—published to accompany an exhibition at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai in summer 2023—sketches a panorama of human invention across the vast creative landscape of Paris from 1914 to 1945.

Un viaje a través de la historia mediante 80 obras de arte y sus gamas cromáticas cuidadosamente seleccionadas. El color permite a los artistas narrar historias, expresar su individualidad, evocar una atmósfera y plasmar mensajes subliminales, y los artistas más grandes han cargado sus pigmentos con referencias sociales, políticas y religiosas. Desde tierra a piedras semipreciosas e insectos machacados, se examinan los inesperados materiales utilizados para crear pigmentos y hasta qué extremos han llegado los artistas para conseguirlos.

Una lectura obligada para todo aquel que se sienta hechizado con el arte excepcional. Un esclarecedor homenaje a 100 piezas artísticas que revelan qué es lo que las hace obras maestras. Chloë Ashby explica por qué cada pieza que presenta resulta tan vital. Incluye obras seleccionadas para ofrecer una yuxtaposición única de estilos, medios y escuelas artísticas, para que incluso los más expertos historiadores del arte se crucen con obras infravaloradas, fuera del canon tradicional, y para conocer a visionarios rebeldes que aún ejercen su influencia en artistas de vanguardia.

Guía de bolsillo de la historia, los materiales y el simbolismo de los colores a lo largo de los siglos y las culturas. A través de sesenta obras maestras, que van desde los pigmentos que adornaban las cuevas prehistóricas hasta las luces de neón de Dan Flavin, los monocromos de Yves Klein y las creaciones de Veronés, Van Gogh, Delaunay, Warhol y Rothko, se exploran la historia, los materiales y el simbolismo de los colores a lo largo de los siglos y las culturas. Accesible, conciso y profusamente ilustrado, se analiza el cuándo, el cómo y el porqué de la evolución de los colores.

Un viaje desde los primeros largometrajes hasta la actualidad, con 50 películas icónicas de las que explica el papel fundamental del color en su éxito. Piense en los intensos colores rosa chicle de The Grand Budapest Hotel de Wes Anderson, la psicodelia alucinógena de 2001: A Space Odyssey de Stanley Kubrik, o los suaves violetas y tonalidades pastel de The Virgin Suicides de Sofia Coppola: el color en una película puede ser tremendamente poderoso. La gama cromática tiene la capacidad de relatar una historia, despertar emociones, favorecer una narrativa, o simplemente saturar la pantalla con unos elementos visuales hermosos e imponentes.